A statement by the Special Adviser to the president on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, quoted the President as making the submission at a closed-door meeting he had with state governors at the Presidential Villa,today in Abuja. The President said the officials of President Jonathan led administration abandoned all financial and administrative instructions put in place in parastatals and agencies, thereby throwing the country into it current financial state. Promising to recover stolen funds under the Jonathan's watch he said;
"I assure you that the days of impunity, lack of accountability, and fiscal recklessness in the management of national resources are over in Nigeria.
I also assure you that funds stolen by government officials who abused their offices in the recent past will be recovered and systemic leakages stopped.
There are financial and administrative instructions in every government parastatal and agency. But all these were thrown to the dogs in the past. Honestly, our problems are great, but we will do our best to surmount them.
The next three months may be hard, but billions of dollars can be recovered, and we will do our best. We will get all those monies back.
The payment of national revenue into any account other than the Federation Account was an abuse of the constitution.
What i heard was going on in many agencies and corporations, particularly the NNPC, was clearly illegal."
“We will try and put the system back into the right position. What happened in the 2nd Republic has apparently happened again, and even worse, but we will restore sanity to the system,” Buhari assured the governors.
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